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It's been more than three years since Textron (NYSE:TXT) announced --
to great fanfare -- the creation of a budget-priced, jet-powered fighter
jet. Built in record time from off-the-shelf parts, the new Textron
AirLand Scorpion boasts a top speed two-thirds the speed of sound (450
knots), a payload of up to 3,000 lbs. of bombs and missiles carried
internally, and a budget price of less than $25 million per plane -- but
not a single sale to any customer in more than three years. Lucky for
Textron, then, that the Scorpion jet isn't the only weapon it's got up
its sleeves. While the Scorpion jet is getting no love at the Pentagon,
there's another Textron plane that the Marine Corps (at least) simply
cannot get enough of: the tiltrotor V-22 Osprey, co-built by Textron and
Boeing (NYSE:BA). Read More

Iraq forces have retaken over 60% of east Mosul: commander

Iraqi
forces have retaken more than 60 percent of eastern Mosul from the
Islamic State group since the battle for the city began in mid-October, a
top commander said Sunday. "From east Mosul... more than 60 percent"
has been recaptured from IS, Staff Lieutenant General Abdulwahab
al-Saadi, a top commander in Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS),
told AFP. The eastern side of Mosul, which is split by the Tigris River,
is the larger of the two, but more civilians live in the west, he said.

AFP

Cause of death released in fall at Colorado ski resort

GRANBY,
Colo. (AP) — A Texas woman who fell from a chairlift at a small
Colorado ski resort last week died from a rupture of the aorta and other
traumatic injuries, an autopsy has concluded.

Associated Press

Israel says will not release bodies of slain Hamas men

Israel
on Sunday ruled that it would not release to their families the bodies
of Hamas militants killed during attacks on Israelis but would instead
bury them, the government said. The decision by the security cabinet
followed the release on Saturday by the Palestinian group of video
footage showing a mock birthday party for Israeli soldier Oron Shaul,
believed by the army to have been killed in the 2014 Gaza war. "The
political-security cabinet discussed standing policy on treatment of the
bodies of Hamas terrorists killed during terror attacks and decided
that they will not be returned but will be buried," a statement posted
on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official Twitter account said.

AFP

Russia Has a Super Torpedo That Kills Submarines at 200 Miles Per Hour (And America Can't Match It)

Imagine
the sudden revelation of a weapon that can suddenly go six times faster
than its predecessors. The shock of such a breakthrough system would
turn an entire field of warfare on its head, as potential adversaries
scrambled to deploy countermeasures to a new weapon they are defenseless
against. While a lull in great power competition delayed the impact of
this new technology, the so-called “supercavitating torpedo” may be
about to take the world by storm. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union
placed a heavy reliance on its submarine fleet to negate America’s
advantage in naval forces. The U.S. Navy was not only tasked to help
protect the flow of reinforcements into Europe in the event of